Darlene McLeod
uOttawa PhD student specializing in ritual studies; researching ritual in Christo-fascism in Canada and abroad; if I pin you, it's probably research; granola aficionado; bike commuter; 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally; frequently swearing 🇨🇦
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- Reposted by Darlene McLeodNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Darlene McLeod(gift substack) Jeffrey Epstein didn't want prostitutes. He wanted scared, vulnerable girls and young women he could control. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodThe New York Times has finally covered the Trump video of Obama as an ape — and they are still providing cover for him. Fuck the Times.
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- Reposted by Darlene McLeodI’m having a hard time thinking of an interview between two human beings I enjoyed more than tonight’s interview of the great Ian McKellen by the great Stephen Colbert. Every moment of it was a pleasure that I highly recommend… but then came the most REMARKABLE ending that you really HAVE to watch.
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodWe cannot ask survivors to speak out about sexual violence while simultaneously punishing them for it. We cannot hold survivors responsible for their own justice while refusing to give it to them. We cannot expect survivors to come forward while making it impossible for them to do so.
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- Reposted by Darlene McLeodThis is what happens when you elect, 3x over, a fucking goon whose only previous work experience was being a nepo baby and drug dealer.
- A public servant texted Doug Ford's number to express concern with his government's return-to-office mandate. They received a voicemail suggesting they "go get another job." pressprogress.ca/public-serva...
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- Just yesterday, in undergrad Freud & Jung, we were discussing Freud's argument on the ultimate societal degradation resulting from relying on religion rather than logic as the basis for establishing morality. I suspect, though, that this dude's notion of "morality" and my own differ substantially.
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodKiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer. Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!
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- As a distraction from The Horrors: this entire thread.
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodRUN. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS CONTEST.
- If @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social at least used transit himself to get to and from City Hall it would go a long way to engendering goodwill. I happen to know his transit-reliant neighbour; it's a five minute walk to the train. He has no excuse. He just likes cars.
- Since the mayor is making people come back into the office, I would add @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social + make it more realistic: so drop-off is further west/south (Barrahaven, Kanata), and then add a time constraint, e.g., arrive by 9 am, since you typically have to get somewhere by a certain time.
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodIf I were Mayor of Ottawa, I would drive the @octranspo.com management team to Westboro, dump them on a random side street and give them 1 hour to get back to City Hall using only a Presto card Whoever makes it back in time gets to keep their job
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- Reposted by Darlene McLeodThe chair of the first law firm that bent the knee to Trump’s extortion and agreed to do pro bono work for him is featured in the Epstein Files, you say? Huh.
- Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations ft.trib.al/H1vYT7B
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodone of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodNew analysis shows that Jeff Bezos could absorb the Washington Post's annual losses for 5 years with the amount he makes in a single week. His net worth has increased by $224 billion since buying the paper.
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodSome US soldiers dropped Ace of Spades cards to mark kills in Vietnam. It's a move that got picked up by some white supremacist accelerationists, and now by ICE. They are dropping death cards when they disappear people and building concentration camps. We need to be very plain about the severity.
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodthis racist claim is part of a long history of blaming declining infrastructure on local black officials’ poor decisionmaking and overspending. in many cases the perceptions “overspending” or “corruption” have hinged on local/Black hiring and contracting requirements.
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodRemember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️
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- Reposted by Darlene McLeodJust so everyone knows, one of the few trials of a communist official after the overthrow in Eastern Europe had a sentence of four years for using a water cannon and tear gas on students. Different standards, I guess. Source: www.reuters.com/article/worl...
- Tear gas (which should not be used on children) (which was not justified in use against any of those people) (which should be illegal in general) should be skipped on the ground. They're launching it into the air. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodI’m seeing so many posts from white men about how ICE isn’t big enough to target every polling place in the country. I won’t argue that they’re overstating their capacity. But also… we know they aren’t planning to target *all* polling places, right? The white ones will have a normal Election Day.
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodNancy Mace has an auto responder for comments containing the word “drugs”.
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodRFK, jr. is the worst person you ever met at a party in california, patel is the worst guy you ever encountered at the gym, bondi is the worst person you ever met at church, bessent is the worst person you have ever met at a conference, all these people are the worst versions of every stereotype
- Reposted by Darlene McLeod”Provocative” is like “intellectual.” If other people use it to describe you, maybe you are. If you use it to describe yourself, you’re more likely just an asshole.
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodWe gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
- If you have been sick to your stomach and feel like you will be again, do not ask to speak to me and then whisper and lean in to tell me this. DO NOT SPEAK MOISTLY ON ME, PUKERS.
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodI do not regret to inform you we are going to win.
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodDo not hire. Do not collaborate. Do not take classes with. Do not grant funds to. Do not put on conference panels. Do not publish. Either we care about this as a profession or we don't.
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- Reposted by Darlene McLeodSpeaking on behalf of a religion that actively sought to spread itself to every country in the world whether invited or not, Speaker Johnson would like to share with you the Biblical case for strong borders.
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodI hope there are some politicians going to @thewaroncars.bsky.social talk tomorrow night in Toronto, a city where two die on the same day and it gets buried on page 9- that is how common it has become.
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodSo the Biblical case for border security is that the Bible says the opposite, but you have to understand that the Bible is written for individuals, like those on the radical left who want to welcome strangers and love our neighbors. It's different if you're a government.
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- Reposted by Darlene McLeodIn an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
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- Reposted by Darlene McLeodexactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...
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- Reposted by Darlene McLeod🤔 It’s definitely not suspicious at all to have people point out your common Twitter sign off is in the Epstein files and ten completely delete your yacht’s logs right?
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- Reposted by Darlene McLeodI don’t care that your favorite actor, musician, or writer was in the files. Leave them behind. Stop forgiving the oppressor class because they made art or a book you liked. Grow the fuck up. These people are not your friend, and they HARMED CHILDREN.
- It's the waiting. The waiting is hard. Knowing the worst is coming, the knowing hanging like a sword. Grieving but not grieving. It's the waiting.
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodif you want to be a girl, you can just be a girl. otoh, if you want to be a haunted lighthouse, you're going to have to do some work
- Reposted by Darlene McLeodWHO THE FUCK COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING YOU ANTIVAX CONCENTRATION CAMP GHOULS did you know that Anne Frank died of typhus maybe don't have people in concentration camps to begin with
- Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
